{"id":1022652,"date":"2026-07-22T07:50:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022652"},"modified":"2026-07-22T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:27:19","slug":"hcltech-ceo-c-vijayakumars-remuneration-jumps-67-to-18-13-million-in-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/hcltech-ceo-c-vijayakumars-remuneration-jumps-67-to-18-13-million-in-fy26\/","title":{"rendered":"HCLTech CEO C Vijayakumar&#8217;s remuneration jumps 67% to $18.13 million in FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HCLTech Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director C Vijayakumar drew a total remuneration of USD 18.13 million (about Rs 175 crore) in the financial year 2025-26, marking a steep increase of nearly 66.9 per cent over the previous year, according to the company&#8217;s annual report. <\/p>\n<p>Vijayakumar, who is based in the US and draws his salary from the step-down wholly owned subsidiary HCL America Inc., saw his compensation jump primarily due to long-term incentives and stock options. <\/p>\n<p>According to the annual report, his pay package for FY26 included a base salary of USD 2.48 million, a performance-linked bonus of USD 2 million, and benefits and perquisites amounting to USD 0.31 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HCLTech Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director C Vijayakumar drew a total remuneration of USD 18.13 million (about Rs 175 crore) in the financial year 2025-26, marking a steep increase of nearly 66.9 per cent over the previous year, according to the company&#8217;s annual report. Vijayakumar, who is based in the US and draws his salary from the step-down wholly owned subsidiary HCL America Inc., saw his compensation jump primarily due to long-term incentives and stock options. According to the annual report, his pay package for FY26 included a base salary of USD 2.48 million, a performance-linked bonus of USD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022671,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022652\/revisions\/1022671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}